Film
Reviews:

Street
Fighter II

aka
Street Fighter II Movie Animated

(Gisaburo
Sugii, Japan, 1994)

The anime version starts off with two major improvements on the live-action film:
no Van Damme, and no Kylie Minogue. Sadly, despite some excellent action sequences,
it falls into the same trap, because it's almost impossible to convert a game
with so many characters into a movie. With each averaging ten minutes of screen
time, there's no chance for significant development of personality or plot, and
the whole thing vanishes up it's own joypad.

Just
like the game, the film is at its best when two people are beating each other
up, with the fight between Vega and Chun-Li one of the best pieces of animated
martial arts I've seen. The soundtrack has been redubbed: whether you view this
as an improvement depends on what you think of Alice in Chains... The TV series
at least has more room to manoeuvre, plotwise. 6/10